Year: 1995 Source: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v.25, no.2, (Summer 1995), p.241-252 SIEC No: 19950132

This Manitoba study compares 20 adolescent suicide attempters with 20 nonpsychiatric control subjects on measures of problem solving, stress, & coping. Study results are presented. Other studies are discussed. Findings support a transactional model of adolescent suicidal behaviour, whereby inaccuracies in appraisal aspects of problem solving (but not in solution-generation aspects) in the face of high life stress leads to a reduction in the use of adaptive efforts to cope. (55 Refs.)